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The FT-79 was produced by the Epiphone company starting in 1942. After Gibson bought Epiphone in 1957, the Texan was produced in Kalamazoo, Michigan until 1970. There have been numerous reissues of the Texan since their primary production period in the 1960s. [1] The original, New York made Epiphone FT-79 is quite a different guitar.
This is a List of Epiphone players (musicians) who have made notable use of Epiphone Guitar models in live performances or studio recordings.Because of the great popularity of these models, musicians are listed here only if their use of these instruments was especially significant – that is, they are musicians with long careers who have a history of faithful Epiphone use, or the particular ...
In England in the 1960s, several Epiphone models were brought to particular prominence via their use by The Beatles, Paul McCartney favouring a 1964 Epiphone Texan that he purchased in 1965 and used for the writing of "Yesterday" among other songs, while John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison all performed using Epiphone Casinos ...
Epiphone Texan; List of extended-range guitar players; F. Flamenco guitar; G. Gallotone Champion Guitar; ... This page was last edited on 13 January 2020, at 18:16 (UTC).
There are conflicting accounts of how the song was recorded. Some sources state that McCartney and the other Beatles tried a variety of instruments, including drums and an organ, and that George Martin later persuaded them to allow McCartney to play his Epiphone Texan steel-string acoustic guitar, later overdubbing a string quartet for backup ...
Raymond Ronald Jones (born 25 April 1939), [1] better-known as Wizz Jones, is an English acoustic guitarist, and singer-songwriter.He was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England and has been performing since the late 1950s and recording from 1965 to the present.
The Epiphone Casino is a thinline hollow body electric guitar manufactured by Epiphone, a branch of Gibson.The guitar debuted in 1961 and has been associated with such guitarists as Howlin' Wolf, Phil Upchurch, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Keith Richards, Dave Davies, Brad Whitford, Shirley Manson, Paul Weller, The Edge, Josh Homme, Daniel Kessler, Brendon Urie ...
Epiphone also made 3 versions of the ES-339, called the ES-339 Pro, [2] ES-339 P90 Pro and the Ultra-339. They are considerably less expensive than the Gibson version. [ 3 ] They currently [ when? ] make one model called under the 'Inspired by Gibson' line which comes in 4 colours: Natural, Pelham Blue, Cherry and Vintage Sunburst.